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Show NEWS SUMMAJIY Tho JnpanOso newspapers contlnuo to urgo tho government to tako Btrong measures ngaliiBt China. Jamos Oliver, tho millionaire plow manufacturer, died nt South Uend, Ind on March 2, at tho ago of 81. Mayor Ilond has ordered that In tho futuro no "stnndlng room" shall bo sold In nickel theaters In Columbus, Ohio. Tlio plant of tho American Car and Foundry company at llorwlclc. Pa., has resumed work, giving employment employ-ment to 1,000 men. A bill Introduced In tho Ohio logls-loturo logls-loturo appropriates S2G.000 for tho re-lief re-lief of peoplo who lost children In tho Colllnwood school houso horror. Flvo thousnnd stovo workers who hnvo been idle nt Detroit, Mich., for wlx months, owing to a strike of 200 stovo mounters, havo returned to work. A Bcrious flro occurred nt Noda Soy, a browing town near Toklo. Four hundred hun-dred out of 1,000 houses wero totally 'destroyed. Tho damago is estimated nt 82,500,000. Secretary of Commcrco and Labor Straus lias begun n campaign against nnnrchlsts, nnd steps havo been taken to deport nil that can bo brought under tho law. Tho highest March wind which had struck Chicago In thirty years commenced com-menced early on tho Cth from tho southwest, and wrought much damago In tho downtown district. According to P. H. Abbott, secretary secre-tary of tho Great Northorn branch of tho Order ot Telegraphers, trouble Is browing ovor tho now scltcdulo ol working houra for oporators. Two negroes, Curry Uobcrtson nad John Henry, wero lynched near Hawk-lnsvlllo, Hawk-lnsvlllo, On., and their bodies burned. They woro charged with tho murder of Mr. and Mrs. Wnrrcn Unit. A violent gnlo has Bwopt tho coasts of tho British Isles. Thero Ivavo been numerous wrecks of small cralt. Most of them woro on tho enst coast of Ireland. Ire-land. Altogether about twenty lives hnvo bcon lost. Announcement was mndo last weok by the Missouri Pacillc-lron Mountain rallwny systom thnt after March 10 tho Borvlces ot 2,000 men employed In tho company's shops in St. Louis will no longer bo required. A now soclnl movement or nntlonnl scopo has established headquarters In Kansas City. Thoso Interested nro literary and prorcsslonnl men, nnd tho object Is to mnko tho spirit ot tho university u force In politics. Three mon wero burned to death and llftcen others Seriously injured by jumping from windows in n llro which destroyed three- workmen's shnckB on tho north sldo of Mnnhnsset bay, Bays a Port Washington, L. I., dispatch. Scnntor-clect W. O. Dradloy ot Kentucky lias given out a formal Btatomcnt announcing hlmsolf in favor fa-vor of tho nomination of Vlco Prcsl. dent Fairbanks for tho presidency by tho Republican national convention. At tho direction of Secrotary Tart, tho opening of bids by tho Isthmian Canal commission for supplies of cement, ce-ment, set (or Mnrch 12, has boon extended ex-tended until April 13. Tho commls-Blon commls-Blon expects to purcbaBO 4,500,000 barrels bar-rels ot comcnt. Snfo blowers robbed tho Mount Ornb bank In Mount Orab. O., forty miles enst of Cincinnati, of $3,000, nnd escaped In a buggy. The explosion Bhattored tho vaults, partially wrecked wreck-ed tho bank building and shocked tho entire village Senntor Allison was 79 years old on Match 2, and received tho congratulations congrat-ulations of his colleagues. Tho Bona-tor Bona-tor has completed his thlrty-llfth year In tho senato, which breaks all records. Ho has been In congress forty-thrco years. Ellwood T. Hance, first vlco presl-dent presl-dent of tho Union Trust company ol Detroit, nnd former postmaster of Detroit, De-troit, shot and killed hlmsolf on tho Cth in his homo. Frlonds say that ho had been greatly dopresBcd over his own llnanclnl affairs. Oovornor Creel ot Chihuahua an nouncea tho establishment of co-cdu cttlon In tho public schools of the stato of Chihuahua. This la tho first tlmo in tho history of Moxlco that boys and girls havo been allowed to attend tho samo schools. Senator Tillman wanta to have tho comptroller of tho currency send to tho senato a detailed statement of nil loans mndo by national banks In New York City upon collateral securities from Juno 1 to Decembor 1, 1007, with tho full nnmes or borrowers. Tho advocates of fomalo surfrago woro on March 3 given their annual opportunity to present plena to congress, con-gress, tho presentation to tho senato being mndo boforo tho commltteo on woman suffrngo, and to tho Iioubo before be-fore tho judiciary commltteo. A contract hns been signed between tho Itnwhldo Western Hallway com-pnny com-pnny nnd tho California Construction company for tho Immedlato construction construc-tion of n railway from tho now camp to Walker Lake Novada, thus connecting con-necting tho camp by rail with tho out-sldo out-sldo world. It Is feared thnt thousonda of men will bo discharged from tho omploy ot tiro railroad! of this country within tho noxt fow months and tho wages of tho men who nro retained will in all probability bo matorlally cut, bo great haft grown tho docrenso in freight traillc. Whllo n llro raged on tho fourth lloor of tiro llvo-story public school building in Ono Hundred nnd Ninth strcot, botweon Amsterdam nvcntio and Broadway, Now York, 2,000 pupils pu-pils marched from tho building singing sing-ing "Amorlca," under tho leadership f .their teachers. |